WORD 2day: Wednesday, 32nd week in Ordinary time
November 12, 2025: Wisdom 6: 1-11; Luke 17: 11-19
The readings seem to converge on one thought today... that the Lord wishes, expects, and demands a response from us!
Our God is a self revealing God... through signs and wonders, and prophets and wise persons, and finally through God's only Son, and continuously even today in and through God's Spirit, God continues to reveal Godself to us in various ways. The question is, do we pay attention, listen and acknowledge what is being revealed.
The tricky fact is that, the more we are given, the more we are expected to respond! It is not to be misinterpretted as if God gives, and expect that we repay! No! But it is that, we are given so much, we are so filled with such goodness, we receive "grace upon grace" (Jn 1:16), that we realise it is right and just to give God thanks and praise to the Lord!
To know the right thing to be done at the right time and choosing to do it, is a gift of the Holy Spirit... we would be blessed to possess it. And the Lord says today, "set your desire on my words; long for them, and you will be instructed!" (Wis 6:11). Doing the right thing, at the right time, is a response that we give to the Lord and that response is what is expected from me - anytime, anywhere! When I don't respond, I waste what was entrusted to me: a gift, a treasure!
Our response to the self revealing God - that is our faith. Growing in faith is learning to respond more and more adequately. Failing to respond is dwindling in faith. Let us grow in faith everyday - let us be attentive to respond to the Lord in every way!